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Issue 59 - The Life Outside Issue

Issue 59

The Life Outside Issue

Introducing the Life Outside issue of Habitus magazine. With life increasingly being absorbed into a digital space, there is never a more important moment to hold something tangible. In this context, the power of nature to have a physiological impact on our sense of wellbeing has never been more important. So how can we cultivate the benefits of the our natural environment in the most intimate of places – our homes? This was the question that helped to bring this issue of Habitus to life.

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Going Strait’ by Destiny Deacon at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
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Going Strait’ by Destiny Deacon at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

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Destiny Deacon explores her past and present in a new collection of photography, video and sculpture.


Commissioned by the Gallery of Modern Art and Queensland Art Gallery, Destiny Deacon’s installation of photographs, video and sculpture ‘Going Strait’ weaves together Deacon’s Erub/Mer (Torres Strait Islands) ancestors and scenes from her contemporary family life. In an interview with  Julie Ewington Deacon discusses her Torres Strait Islander heritage, strongly manifest in her work, “when I shut my eyes and think of Erub I think of the beach and the sea. I can smell it and hear it. …  I grew up in houses where it was always on for young and old – food, drink, laughs, fights, music and politics”. The people depicted in the video element of the exhibition are likely to be Deacon’s ancestors, relatives, or even great grandparents. In contrast, Deacon’s colour photographs and film projection depict scenes from her contemporary family life; friends, neighbours and relatives gather together in lively activity.

Deacon is an artist, performer and political activist who has exhibited her photographs, videos and installations in numerous solo and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally, since 1990. 

‘Going Strait’ will be on at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery from 3 – 19 May 2012.


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Issue 59 - The Life Outside Issue

Issue 59

The Life Outside Issue

Introducing the Life Outside issue of Habitus magazine. With life increasingly being absorbed into a digital space, there is never a more important moment to hold something tangible. In this context, the power of nature to have a physiological impact on our sense of wellbeing has never been more important. So how can we cultivate the benefits of the our natural environment in the most intimate of places – our homes? This was the question that helped to bring this issue of Habitus to life.

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